The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
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Murder--a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange obsession. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves? Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism. At a point during the birth of the modern era, murder entered the popular psyche,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1605989096
ISBN13:9781605989099
Release Date:November 2015
Publisher:Pegasus Books
Length:336 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.7"
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